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New universality classes for generic higher character Lifshitz points

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We describe new universality classes associated to generic higher character Lifshitz critical behaviors for systems with arbitrary short range competing interactions. New renormalization-group arguments are proposed for anisotropic and isotropic systems. The usual mm-axial Lifshitz universality classes are obtained as a simple limit of this arbitrary competing critical behavior.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0403546,
  title  = {New universality classes for generic higher character Lifshitz points},
  author = {Marcelo M. Leite},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0403546},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Revtex4, 5 pages, accepted for publication in Physics Letters A